Just three days before winning the Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games title, Yuri Dzivielevski went on a late-series heater at the 2026 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games festival. The 34-year-old strung together back-to-back-to-back top-two finishes in the final three events, including one outright win, to be steal the series championship.
Dzivielevski had not recorded a cash during the first four events of the seven-tournament schedule, but still accumulated a total of $745,350 and 534 PGT points to ultimately hoist the PGT Gold Cup.
The first winner of the series was no stranger to success at this festival. Two-time PGT Mixed Games series champion Chino Rheem took down the $5,300 H.O.R.S.E. title, securing his ninth career trophy inside the PokerGO Studio.
The 45-year-old topped 101 entries to lock up the first-place prize of $112,100, defeating Dylan Linde after the pair made a heads-up deal. The score grew the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion’s lifetime haul to nearly $19.3 million. Rheem went on to cash twice more, finishing seventh in the final standings for the series that he won in both 2025 and 2023.
While Rheem has posed for more than his fair share of winner photos at this venue, Justin Liberto did so for the first time after taking down event no. 2. Liberto earned his first career PGT title as the $5,300 eight-game champion, along with $127,400 in prize money.
The 37-year-old’s previous best live results largely came in no-limit hold’em events, defeated mixed games expert and five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Calvin Anderson heads-up to close out the tournament. Liberto ultimately wound up in sixth place in the series-long points race, adding $120,000 for a fifth-place showing in the $25,000 buy-in finale to go with his early win.
Liberto is now approaching $7.3 million in career earnings after this triumph. His top score remains the $640,711 first-place prize in the 2015 WSOP $3,000 six-max event.
Ryan Hoenig emerged victorious from a field of 83 entries in the $10,000 T.O.R.S.E. event, securing $232,400 and his second career PGT title. The win follows a bracelet victory last summer in the WSOP dealer’s choice event for $354,444.
Hoenig now boasts nearly $1.8 million in career tournament earnings, with his four largest scores all coming in non-no-limit hold’em events. He had also made the final table in event no. 2. His back-to-back runs were enough to place him fifth in the points race by the festival’s end.
Nick Schulman was added to the Poker Hall of Fame in 2025, roughly a month after winning his seventh bracelet. The WPT champion and current High Stakes Poker commentator is far from done racking up the accolades, though.
Schulman’s latest addition to his lengthy résumé saw him defeat a field of 84 entries in the $10,000 eight-game event, banking $235,200 and his eighth career PGT title. The 41-year-old pro now has more than $25.8 million in career earnings to his name after also final-tabling the SHRB Mixed Games event that directly followed this series.
Dzivielevski’s run to series champion began with his win in event no. 5, the $15,000 big bet mix. He overcame a field of 53 entries to walk away with $262,350 and his first career PGT title.
The very next day, the Brazilian high roller came incredibly close to a second win. He navigated his way through a field of 57 entries in the $15,000 dealer’s choice event, making it down to the final two. Qinghai ‘Jack’ Pan ultimately won the heads-up battle for that title, earning $273,600 and his second career PGT title.
The win put the exclamation point on an impressive streak for Pan. The three-time bracelet winner strung together three podium finishes in four days, and would have been the series champion if it weren’t for an improbable finish by Dzivielevski. His run began with a third-place showing in the $10,000 T.O.R.S.E. event for $107,900 and continued with a runner-up finish in the $10,000 eight-game for another $151,200.
Pan cashed for a total of $532,700 across his three final-table appearances, accruing 478 PGT points to give him the lead heading into the final event of the series.
Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast triumphed in the $25,000 10-game championship. The seven-time bracelet winner beat out 64 entries to take home $480,000. This was his third cash of the series, having also placed ninth in the $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. and seventh in the $5,000 eight-game. All told, Rast cashed for $514,750 during the seven-event series, accumulating 340 PGT points along the way to finish third in the series standings.
Bracelet winner Philip Sternheimer, who was the runner-up in event no. 3, finished third for $216,000. His 279 points were good for fourth on the final leaderboard.
Of course, Sternheimer was far from the only player to benefit from a strong showing in this final event. Dzivielevski survived to the final two, locking up $312,000 and 187 PGT points to see him overtake Pan at the finish line for the series champion honors.
There was no rest for the Brazilian star, though, as he turned around and hopped into the $100,000 buy-in SHRB Mixed Games the very next day. He went on to win that event as well, adding $1.3 million to bring his tally for the week to over $2 million in earnings.
